GRE Word List

AMALGAM

a mixture of different elements

The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.

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authoritarianof, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority
mangeany of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange
scruplea unit of capacity equal to ยน/โ‚‚โ‚„ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table
visionaryhaving or marked by foresight and imagination
adoreto worship or honor as a deity or as divine
foregoto go before : precede
glaringhaving a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger
fugitiverunning away or intending flight
loiterto delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle
antediluvianof or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible